Crabrawler
The Boxing Pokémon
Type: Fighting
Official Registration #: 739
Entry: Confusingly enough, although this coconut crab-like pokémon resembles krabby and corphish on a superficial level, it’s actually a fighting-type, not a water-type. While most researchers will tell you that it’s because its elemental weakness and resistance distribution resembles that of a pure fighting-type and not of a water or even water/fighting pokémon, seasoned pokémon ethologists will also offer the observation that crabrawler resembles a fighting-type in terms of behavior, including its technique of defending itself fiercely with its boxing glove-like claws, its willingness to train its physical traits by punching trees, and its zest for fighting literally anything and everything that crosses its path.

Crabominable
The Woolly Crab Pokémon
Type: Fighting/Ice
Official Registration #: 740
Entry: The evolved form of crabrawler, by battle experience, when trained in an exceptionally cold environment. The exact circumstances of this pokémon’s evolution have not only resulted in a significant boost in power but also in temper. Consequently, it will lash out at anything within reach, even going so far as to use its own claws as projectiles. To be fair, from what this author has observed, it’s not entirely unusual for someone native to a tropical island to respond to extreme cold with extreme anger.

I’m not so sure someone who doesn’t have much of a tolerance for heat should be commenting on someone else’s tolerance for cold. —LH

What? I can tolerate heat just fine. —Bill

You once described Fallarbor Town as “a nice little hamlet nestled on the slopes of Mount Doom.” —LH

Well, it is. —Bill